Mike Cardus

MAY 17, 2013

In what ways might I serve to create a bridge for teams and managers to understand their view and use that to achieve results? When working one on one coaching a manager through successes, challenges and workable goals , how would I illustrate humbleness while being arrogant to have the conviction to develop the needed knowledge?

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 13, 2021

In the last five years, Public Works leadership have taken many actions to build a sustainable future. In addition to 18 employees operating three shops in two locations, the Division also manages two fueling sites and a Parts and Inventory Room. Background. The County maintains more than a typical municipal fleet.

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Great Results Team Building

APRIL 7, 2012

The sentiment actually became popular in athletics as early as 1946, when Leo Durocher, the legendary baseball manager, first declared that “nice guys finish last.” The same interpersonal skills that cause some people to question the leadership of Matt Ryan are what actually make him a great leader! Being nice is NOT about being weak.

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Skip Prichard

APRIL 15, 2020

Can you make sense of this: Organizations worldwide spend $356 billion a year on leadership development efforts , yet 75% of organizations rate their leadership programs as being not very effective? Some startling leadership statistics: 75% of employees report their boss is the worst and most stressful part of their job.

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Lead from Within

JUNE 9, 2018

The secret of successful managing is to keep the five guys who hate you away from the four guys who haven’t made up their minds. THE LEADERSHIP GAP. Additional Reading you might enjoy: 12 Successful Leadership Principles That Never Grow Old. A Leadership Manifesto: A Guide To Greatness. –William Shakespeare.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

SEPTEMBER 5, 2010

You’re Not the Boss of Me Skip to content Home About Me About This Blog ← Leadership ~ What’s Love Got To Do With It? Managing and Leading…Lessons from Gilbert & Sullivan → Like Be the first to like this post. link] Wally Bock Reply Gwyn Teatro September 8, 2010 at 10:11 pm Thank you Wally!

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You're Not the Boss of Me

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

Leadership News LeadershipNews: Check out Great Leadership by Dan blog post on new CBS show "Undercover Boss" [link] LeadershipNews: An insightful post on new research showing that companies' sustained high performance may simply be luck. When have you had to step up? Care to share?

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You're Not the Boss of Me

JANUARY 2, 2011

First up is Leadership…and All That Jazz. This post considers the metaphor between leadership and jazz. Managing & Leading…Lessons from Gilbert & Sullivan was really fun to write. As a visual learner, I love getting leadership inspiration from movies. I Love to tell stories.

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Review Gilbert Diversity Blog 46

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2013

Those three activities ( detailed in an article Gilbert co-authored in December's Harvard Business Review based on his experience transforming Desert News and Deseret Digital, Utah-based media organizations) don't happen accidentally. Instead, they require careful, consistent leadership. Transformation is hard work.

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Roundtable Talk

APRIL 27, 2010

Before getting thrown in head first to the world of assessment, I conducted countless management interviews using the same toolkit of questions: what are your strengths, what are your weaknesses, blah, blah, blah etc. Spending more time upfront on your interviewing can save you lots of time, money (and tears!) down the line. Happy leading!

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2012

The engineer behind that project, Steve Sasson, offered a memorable one-liner to the New York Times in 2008 when he said management's reaction to his prototype was, "That's cute — but don't tell anyone about it.". Gilbert's HBR article with Joseph Bauer that also discusses Kodak is available here. This is hard stuff.

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Gilbert Film Incubator Business Model 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

Instead of passive subscribers, it created “communities of friends” who generated new story ideas and collaborated with Fast Company staff to develop themes of the “new management revolution.”. At Best Buy in the early 2000s, Julie Gilbert was in charge of an internal network aimed at developing female leaders.

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Gilbert Participative Cooper Network Economy 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

The writer Elizabeth Gilbert rightly expresses this concern in her inspiring TED talk. I agree with Gilbert that one should not put pressure on oneself to become inspired. Another incredibly important, and often overlooked trigger of inspiration is exposure to inspiring managers, role models, and heroes.

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Gilbert Self-aware Creativity Report 16

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2016

But as employees, most of us still have to put up with quaint, joyless systems for enterprise resource planning, customer relationship management, or expense reports. And creativity in general is the key to unlocking “ big magic ,” as the writer Elizabeth Gilbert calls it. Have a challenging mission.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

When it comes to stepping up to leadership, your network is a tool for identifying new strategic opportunities and attracting the best people to them. This article will show you how to reinvent your network, by managing these three critical dimensions. Give you a sounding board to flesh out your ideas. The list goes on.

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How To Diversity Letter Learning-by-Doing 8

First Friday Book Synopsis

DECEMBER 9, 2012

I hope that at least a few of these recent posts will be of interest to you: BOOK REVIEWS Harder Than I Thought: Adventures of a Twenty-First Century Leader Robert D. Austin, Richard L. Nolan, and Shannon O’Donnell Leapfrogging: Harness the Power of Surprise for Business Breakthroughs Soren Kaplan The Talent Masters: Why Smart Leaders [.].

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Kaplan Blog Review Power 75

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2015

Phil Gilbert , general manager of IBM Design: “In design thinking, you need to listen to the people doing the job, while in continuous delivery you don’t need to talk to users; you just monitor what they do on the web.” Then he meets with the leadership team. Then he meets with employees.

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Productivity Products Customer Intimacy Software 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

But you know, my leadership team is smart. Vijay Govindarajan and Chris Trimble suggest that companies can consciously manage the balance between the "performance engine" (that minimizes mistakes) and the "discovery team" (that encourages experiments) by being clear about what core capabilities should be forgotten and borrowed.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2012

However, Roger Martin , Michael Porter , Christopher Meyer and Julia Kirby , and other thoughtful commentators have noted that the intent to maximize shareholder value has resulted in myopic management overly obsessed with short-term financial returns. Leadership compensation. Environmental impact. Short-term profits.

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